I have the lovely London Saint James here today with a brand new release AND a giveaway!
Forever & Always (Two Hearts, One Soul Duet #2) by London Saint James
Available: August 15, 2017
Publisher: LSJ Romance
ASIN: B074MZBHH5
From international bestselling author London Saint James comes the final installment of Two Hearts, One Soul, a breathtaking story of two people who have always been connected, forever tied together by fate, by destiny, by unbreakable love.
With the media hell-bent on exposing Winterβs once private life, Cayden will do anything to protect her. But thereβs more than just the voracious paparazzi conspiring against them.
Involved in an unprecedented web of strange events, and wound in a string of lies about to break with devastating consequences, Winter must battle ghosts from her past that threaten to harm the man she loves.
Faced with a choice she always knew would be inevitable, and a secret of her own, can the fairytale Winterβs been living with Cayden beat the odds of their reality and really come true?
[Read an excerpt]
Where To Buy:
β½ Amazon CA
β½ Amazon UK
β½ Amazon US
*Read for free on Kindle Unlimited
For a limited time only, Always (Two Hearts, One Soul Duet: Book One) is on sale (or read it for free on Kindle Unlimited)
β½ Amazon CA
β½ Amazon UK
β½ Amazon US
Excerpt:
Thirteen years ago, I died.
While my death hadnβt been physical, it became a never-ending death of the heart. A complete withering of the soul. You see, Austin Carlyle was my everything. My best friend. My lover. The very air I breathed. The sun in my world. My warmth. The beating of my heart. But the night before our wedding, my heart would be ripped from me when Austinβs life ended in a horrific car crash. A crash I βsurvivedβ if thatβs what you want to call it.
Unable to cope with Austinβs loss, I retreated deep within myself, eventually leaving New York and my broken past behind. I found some semblance of a new life in Colorado, living in the make-believe worlds of the novels I wrote.
Three weeks ago, I returned to the place I knew would hold all the ghosts of my past, though I came back to the Big Apple at the urging of an old acquaintance, Zander HarrisonβAustinβs one-time agent and friend. He convinced me to help him with a script to a movie that had been put in a very expensive holding pattern. The leading man hadnβt been happy with the direction of the film and had requested Zander find me. I couldnβt imagine why. I wrote romance novels. I wasnβt a script writer. But something about my books captured Caydenβan A-list actor Iβd never seen or heard of before. Of course, Iβd soon find out not knowing who the actor was, was ridiculous. I might have been living in my own personal dark ages, but still. He was a megastar. However, the real shocker would be what I faced when memories from the past came back to haunt me.
Weak, bone-cold, sopping-wet, and on the verge of batshit crazy, I stumbled into someone on Valentineβs Dayβof all daysβwho shook me to my very unsteady foundation. What I saw when I looked at him was the face of a destroying angel, because it was like looking back in time at Austin. Oh, there were a few things different, like the color of his hair being nowhere near the pitch black of Austinβs, but so much about the man was baffling. He was the same heightβhis build an exact match. His voiceβeerily close in texture, tone, and inflection. But if thatβs not strange enough, he spoke with the same cadence.
Who was he? The Hollywood heartthrob Iβd never seen beforeβCayden Cain.
After our bizarre βintroductionβ the need to know more about him ate at me like the slow drip of acid. I had to find some answers, so I searched the internet. Surprised by the results of my search would be an understatement. It was all too much. Too unbelievable. Impossible. Cayden was twenty-three years old, the exact same age Austin was when he was killed, but even stranger, Cayden had been born in the same month, on the same dayβMay eighteenthβin the same city as Austin, only years later.
But thatβs not all. There was a weird coincidence of Cayden being involved in a car accident. One which tragically took the lives of his parents and left him the sole survivor of that accident when he was ten, putting this terrible happening around the same timeframe as the wreck Austin and I were involved in. What was also baffling was the life path Cayden tookβacting. It was very close to the path Austin had taken and would have continued to take if heβd been alive. By seventeen, Cayden had been the lead in a small foreign film and moved to Hollywood shortly after, gaining his groundbreaking role at the age of eighteen. The first movie Cayden obtained his superstar recognition for was Longing.
Before Austinβs death, heβd signed a movie deal with Paramount. What was the title of the movie he was to begin filming after our wedding? Longing.
When I first read that, I gapedβcompletely stunned. Then I read a synopsis of the movie, beyond shocked to see it wasnβt just a coincidence of the title; it was the exact same movie. I had no idea why Paramount shelved their project for so many years. But to find it had finally been completed with Cayden as the leading man, well, what were the odds of such a thing?
Even with all the uncanny coincidences and the almost carbon copy similarities in appearance, what was truly unbelievable? Caydenβs eyesβthe same shades of blue from my past. They captured me, looking straight into my soulβthe eyes of my love. My life.
Everything changed.
Trust me, I tried to fight against the truthβthe pull I hadnβt felt in so very longβbut it was no use. Iβd come to believe, as crazy as it might seem, some way, somehow, Austin saved me through Cayden. It was as though they were two hearts, one soul. Cayden himself spoke as though heβd always known me. Missed me. Loved me even. I couldnβt explain how it was possible, but he, like Austin, was the missing piece of my heart.
With his touch, Cayden brought me back to life, reawakened dormant feelings, and gave me what had long been missingβWinter Perri. The only problem, I wasnβt sure I could live in Caydenβs superstar, paparazzi infested world.
βWill you stay with me?β heβd asked.
I gave the only answer that made any sense at all.
Giveaway:
London will be giving away a singed paperback of Always (Two Hearts, One Soul Duet: Book One) as well as a handmade leather bound travel journal, and a pair of pink mirrored Sojo shades to one lucky winner. All you need to do to be eligible is fill out the Rafflecopter entry below.
The winner will be announced on September 15th
About The Author:
London Saint James has lived in many places, but never felt βat homeβ until she met the real-life man of her dreams and settled down in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. London lives with her husband and their fat cat who thinks he owns them.
As an award-winning, international bestselling author, London is living her childhood dream. She knew all the scribbling she did, that big imagination of hers, and all those clamoring characters running around in her head would pay off someday.
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